Yuan Yuan

The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx (eBook, ePUB)

Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The issue of the other has always been an urgent one, especially since 1980's, when the political debates over race, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, and post-colonialism took the central stage. The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque probes the polemic status of the other and the dubious nature of the subject from a heterodox perspective of an emblematic grotesque figure, the Sphinx-the mystical trickster and the guardian of sacred knowledge in Egyptian culture. In Greek mythology, Oedipus, the epitome of Western logos, solved the Sphinx's riddle with a single word, "Man." This evocation for the phantom of a solipsistic subject discloses, in effect, Oedipus' latent grotesque disparity. The book explores the encounter of this unlikely pair to inquire the riddling relationship between the singular subject and the grotesque other in the context of modern discourses of the subject and postmodern theories of the other.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761866633
• Artikelnr.: 44907866

Autorenporträt

Yuan Yuan is Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos. He is the author of The Discourse of Fantasy: Theoretical and Fictional Perspectives, translator of Nobel Prize writer Saul Bellow's novel, The Adventures of Augie March, guest editor of The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts: Special Issue on Dream and Narrative Space. He has contributed articles to Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Foreign Literatures, Studies of Psychoanalytic Theories, Readerly/Writerly Texts, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, European Joyce Studies Annual.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Return of the Grotesque
Part One: The Primal Scenes Revisited: Archeology and Genealogy of the
Grotesque
Chapter 1. The Uncanny Subject between Aesthetics and Metaphysics
Chapter 2. The Mystical Encounter between the Sphinx and Oedipus
Part Two: Reconfiguring the Grotesque between the Sphinx and Oedipus
Chapter 3. The Enigmatic Sphinx: The Grotesque Other in Aesthetic
Speculation
Chapter 4. Oedipus Obsessed: Grotesque Desire and the Phantom Subject
Part Three: The Subject of the Other(s) in Ontology and Heterologies
Chapter 5. Oracles and Ghosts: The Dubious Others in Lacan's Discourse of
the Subject
Chapter 6. From Ontology to Heterologies: A Postmodern Perspective on
Otherness
Afterword: The Cyborg: A Post-human Return to the Grotesque
Bibliography
Index